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Elliptic integral evaluations of Bessel moments and applications

David H Bailey1, Jonathan M Borwein2, David Broadhurst3 and M L Glasser4

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We record and substantially extend what is known about the closed forms for various Bessel function moments arising in quantum field theory, condensed matter theory and other parts of mathematical physics. In particular, we develop formulae for integrals of products of six or fewer Bessel functions. In consequence, we are able to discover and prove closed forms for cn,k := ∫0tkKn0(t) dt with integers n = 1, 2, 3, 4 and k ≥ 0, obtaining new results for the even moments c3,2k and c4,2k. We also derive new closed forms for the odd moments sn,2k+1 := ∫0t2k+1I0(t)Kn−10(t) dt with n = 3, 4 and for tn,2k+1 := ∫0t2k+1I20(t)Kn−20(t) dt with n = 5, relating the latter to Green functions on hexagonal, diamond and cubic lattices. We conjecture the values of s5,2k+1, make substantial progress on the evaluation of c5,2k+1, s6,2k+1 and t6,2k+1 and report more limited progress regarding c5,2k, c6,2k+1 and c6,2k. In the process, we obtain eight conjectural evaluations, each of which has been checked to 1200 decimal places. One of these lies deep in four-dimensional quantum field theory and two are probably provable by delicate combinatorics. There remains a hard core of five conjectures whose proofs would be most instructive, to mathematicians and physicists alike.


PACS

02.30.Gp Special functions

11.10.-z Field theory

MSC

34B30 Special equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.)

33C10 Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, 0F1

81Txx Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (See also 70Sxx)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 20 (23 May 2008)

Received 18 January 2008, in final form 25 March 2008

Published 29 April 2008



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